If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.